Atheist Revolution: Helping New Atheist Bloggers: Tips To Get Started

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Helping New Atheist Bloggers: Tips To Get Started

Image via WikipediaI really enjoy helping new atheist bloggers strengthen their blogs and attract readers. I suppose I see it as a way for me to give back to the community that continues to inspire me. I don't claim to be an expert in blogging, but I have made plenty of mistakes that I have learned from and can help others avoid. In this post, I'll assemble some of my previous tips in one place to help newbies discover some of the more important initial strategies.

In organizing the following tips, I am going to assume that you have a relatively new atheist blog and that you are interested in building your readership. Away we go!

Install a good system for monitoring traffic to your blog. I cannot overstate the importance of this as an initial step. Without this in place, you have no way to analyze your traffic, learn where it is coming from, monitor the success of various strategies for building readership, etc.
Add your blog to Technorati and start using Technorati tags on every post.
Join the Atheist Blogroll.
Write at least one post per day. I know not everyone will agree, but I consider this to be the single most important thing for a new blog to do in order to build readership.
Learn about blog carnivals and submit your best posts to an appropriate blog carnival.

Now you are well on your way to establishing yourself as a force in the atheist blogosphere. I like writing posts on blogging tips and do so fairly often. To make sure you don't miss any, subscribe to my feed below.